Local police officers, who were of service in the area of El Algar, located in the early hours of Sunday a car parked on the roadside next to an orange grove on the road RM-312.
Approaching the scene, the agents could see that the fence of the house had been cut and that he was involved inside the vehicle.
During the operation, officers found in the trunk several kilos of oranges, plus a pair of pliers with which supposedly would have made ​​the break the fence of the farm.
The alleged perpetrator, an individual 34, a Spanish national, was arrested by agents and brought to justice for the crime of burglary.
As explained by the local police sources, this adds to a series of robberies that have been recorded in different farms Pozo Estrecho, La Palma and La Aljorra, where they were detained individuals who sought to remove various agricultural equipment, fencing, storage agrochemicals, vegetables and fruits, especially oranges.
These circumstances have led to intensified surveillance of rural areas of our municipal materialized in recent months various interventions and arrests.
Since the local police are advised to report such robberies and is the first step to intervene in these areas, which have since last year with a campaign to control the rural telephone, which provides immediate response in case of theft or any other incident, with controls more than 50 strategic points of passing vehicles.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena